The Bossier banner., 1887-08-18
State Press Comment.


will be a change in the administration
of the State Government next year,
no man who keeps up with the polit-
ical signs can doubt.
Morehouse Clarion: "Gen. Mich
oils canvass seems to be progressing
to the satisfaction of its manager and
to the evident disgruntlement of the
McEneryites. If our exchanges af-
ford any reasonable index to public
opinion, Gen. Nichols is certainly
and surely gaining ground at rapid
pace.
The Ruston Caligraph, Moncure
paper, says: "Judge White, of New
Orleans, in an open letter replying to
the bill of Indictment of ten counts
filed against General Nichols by the
anti-Nicholls press, has knocked all
the wind out of the sails of those
papers that have pressed the points
so vigorously. The Judge is dan
gerous witness to put on the stand"
The New Orleans Picayune, op-
posing Governor McEnery's nomina-
ton, says: "We want a Governor
who can look little beyond himself
and his immediate political friends,
and who will free the party from the
tyraneous domination of rings and
cliques. We hope to see the day
when the first and only question in
Louisiana politics shall not be wheth-
er one is a McEneryite or an anti
McEneryite."
Shreveport Times: The Truth
has been diving into the misty re-
cesses of old-time files of the Baton
Rouge Capitolian, and this IS what it
found as an utterance of that paper
in 1879, after Nichols had been Gov
ernor more than two years:
''The steady and unwavering charge
of 1876 has borne it's fruits; and
peace, happiness and hope reign
throughout our borders. Our BE-
LOVED NICHOLS, the manned veteran
and patriot, has purified the escutch-
con of Louisiana, and will soon trans
NIT unsulied the trust his fellow
citizens have placed in his keeping" !"
The "unsullied trust" to which
reference is here made is the trust
that Gen. Nichols had in his keeping
after most of the so-called obnoxious
appointments had been made. But
then, you know, Nichols was failure
as Governor!
Natchitoches Review: We pre-
sumo the ''three icks for Nicholl" re-
fers to the article in the last issue of
this paper in which the Review en-
deavored to refute for the second
time the charge that Governor Mich
oils snubbed the political prisoners
ftom this parish in 1879. The rela-
tions of the editor of this paper to
that controversy are somewhat pecu-
liar. He was one of the prisoners
whom Governor Nichols is alleged
to have snubbed, and in 1883 when
the charge was first made he, with
the assistance of Mr.. Cunningham
and a number of other gentlemen
from this place refuted it through
the columns of this paper. He had
then, and he has yet, the highest re-
spect and admiration for Governor
Nicoolls. He believed then, and he
believes now, that the charge in ques-
tion was false. Under the circum-
stances, silence ON his part would
have placed him in the position OF
acquiescing in charge which he had
once denied. His own self respect,
and his sense of duty as a journalist,
would not permit him to assume such
an attitude.
New Orleans Picayune, 18th: ssIn
the face of the record it is scarcely
polite for any of the representatives
of the administration to call attention
to it's financial management.rhe credit
of the State is probably lower to-day
than that of any State in the Union.
Its bonds bearing 4 per cent interest
are at discount of Is per cent. Its
warrants are hawked about the streets
at AZ to IS cents on the dollar. There
is not a bank in the State that will
act as its Fiscal Agent. Nearly sew
en- years have passed since the new
constitution was adopted, the first
five of which required only 2 per
cent interest on the debt, and yet so
reckless has been the management
that not dollar is provided to pay
the interest of the bonds as they
fall due. Each january the coupons
have to be paid on borrowed money.
The baby bonds which had to redeem
those $11, ZOO, 900 of back taxes are
at discount of so per cent. Some
of the coupons are unpaid and the
principal is overdue. These bonds
outstanding, amounting to about ST.
250,000, have been practically repu-
dated, since no provision or even
attempt at provision has been made
to pay either principal or interest,"
What with the drainage OF the funds